Productivity

One of the great new features in the Q2 release of WebUI Test Studio is the ability to record and execute tests using Silverlight’s Out-of-Browser feature.  For more information about configuring your application for Out-of-Browser click here.  In this post we will look at how to configure and record your test in WebUI Test Studio and then execute. To get started first open WebUI Test Studio and create a new project and test.   In order to configure a test for Silverlight Out-of-Browser recording, click on the “Out-of-Browser” option in the menu.   After selecting the SLOOB button, you ...

When recording automation, it's important to stay laser focused on your main objective - creating a sustainable test that can be executed consistently for regression testing. By staying in this mind set and taking time to think through each test case and how to best tackle it - you will have created tests that will thoroughly test your application build after build. A common pitfall new testers fall into is creating automation that is action oriented without setting appropriate 'verification' and 'wait' steps. 'Verification' and 'wait ' steps allow you to ensure elements exist prior to performing click actions and ...

After having installed TeamPulse the first thing a user is going to have to do is create a new project.  Creating a new project presents the important decision of choosing a template for the project.  Once a project is created you cannot change the template later so the decision is one not to be taken lightly.  After reading this blog post you will understand what is a project template in TeamPulse as well as understand each of the different project templates available in order to be capable of choosing the correct template for your project. What is ...

The first blog post on this topic described how to create a domain model from an existing database and set inheritance relations between the generated classes. It was also shown how to use vertical mapping. In this post however, the focus is on the flat strategy (multiple classes mapped to one table) and forward mapping. Let's add some new classes to the model from the previous post: The new classes - Coupe and Limousine, will be mapped to the table of the Car class. To do that, select each of the new classes and change the "Mapped to" option in the Details Editor...

With the 2010 Q2 release of Telerik OpenAccess ORM we introduced a lot of new features, including forward mapping capabilities for the visual designer. This makes the life much easier when it comes to defining a domain model which contains classes in a hierarchy. Until now it was only possible to use the vertical strategy for mapping a class hierarchy but in Q2 we have enabled the flat strategy as well. Any combination of flat and vertical mapping is also supported. This leaves the horizontal strategy as the last one to be supported, probably later this year. Now let's see how those things...